{"id":3058,"date":"2024-11-15T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T23:03:30","slug":"book-where-the-wild-ladies-are-by-aoko-matsuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/11\/15\/book-where-the-wild-ladies-are-by-aoko-matsuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
<\/strong>by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton, performed by Sara Skaer
audiobook published by Dreamscape Media<\/a> (at Libro.fm)
2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a collection of contemporary stories, inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories. In each story, someone who is dead (or someone connected to the dead) gets a new identity, or a new job, or a new chance to tell their favorite relative not to make the same mistakes they did while also criticizing their apartments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why haunt a well when you can be a small business owner? Why not report a fire if it will bring your true love out of the monastery… oh, wait, that one has consequences – don’t do that. Why not pretend to be a human wife, even though the expectations of human wives make absolutely no sense (in general, and also to you as a fox spirit)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fun stories, and one of them (about a ghost helping out single moms) even got me all misty-eyed. The audiobook is well performed and enjoyable to listen to (forgive the annoying ghost aunt – not all ghosts complain as much as she does!), and notes at the end describe the traditional tales that inspired them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed these stories and the clever character-based connections between them, very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsudatranslated by Polly Barton, performed by Sara Skaeraudiobook published by Dreamscape Media (at Libro.fm)2021 This is a collection of contemporary stories, inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories. In each story, someone who is dead (or someone connected to the dead) gets a new identity, or a new job, … <\/p>\n

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